Selection of Courses Offered in Fall 2025

Although we feature a select number of classes below, you may also view a complete list of courses offered this term. Be sure to look for classes that are affiliated with the Gabelli School of Business and search by the correct term. Here is how to search for classes:

Select Fall 2025 as the term.
Use code “GBA” to search for available graduate courses or “GSB” to search for available undergraduate courses.
Once you have selected a course or multiple courses, fill out this form and submit it for approval to be accepted.

We will verify your alumni status, confirm your seat with the professor, and request payment of $450 to secure your place. Once your fee is paid, we will provide full class details. The deadline to submit your form for approval is Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Once submitted, you should hear back in approximately five business days.

Below is a sampling of some of the most popular courses offered for Fall 2025.

TXGB 7001
Section: 001
CRN: 47212
Course Title: Corporate Taxation
Professor: Iris Schneider
Day/Time: Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Location: Online

Graduate Business Course
Studies federal income tax laws that apply to the formation, operation, dissolution, and liquidation of corporations. Focuses on the tax impact of various financial transactions upon the corporation, as well as on the shareholders. Issues of distributions and redemptions, accumulated earnings tax, and personal holding companies are covered. Discusses related multiple corporations, earnings and profits, and book-to-tax adjustments. Also studies S corporations and other ways of mitigating double taxation. Includes a brief review of corporate acquisitions and reorganizations.

Prior coursework should include: ACGB 7184. Individual and Business Entity Taxation

MIGB/MKGB 879Z
Section 001
CRN: 54045/54031
Course Title: Customer Loyalty Programs
Professor: Paul Kramer
Day/Time: Mondays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: October 27, 2025 - December 8, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
Customer loyalty is key to growing a profitable brand. In response, firms invest heavily in programs to drive loyalty, increase market share, and build a moat around their most valuable customers. This course will explore the drivers of customer loyalty and will delve into the program strategy, program structure, marketing communications, and financial implications of running a customer loyalty program.
Prior coursework should include: MIGB/MKGB 6710 Responsible Marketing Management

FNGB 74CX
Section: 001
CRN: 52559
Course Title: Investment Analysis and AI
Professor: Yee Seng Cheah
Day/Time: Thursdays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
This course is an advanced investment analysis course with three overlapping parts. The first part focuses on utilizing well-regarded investment websites available on the internet to speed up economic data analysis, portfolio evaluation, and stock selection. The second part involves using GenAI to rapidly ask questions and gain various perspectives, uncovering blind spots and opening new areas of opportunity. Effective prompt engineering and checking against GenAI’s hallucinations is crucial. In the final three weeks, students will work in groups of four on a pro bono consulting project for an industry practitioner, applying what they have learned in the course.
Prior coursework should include: FNGB 6411: Intro Financial Systems & Methods

ISGB 7924
Section: 001
CRN: 46693
Course Title: Mobile E-Commerce and Apps
Professor: I-Cheng Chiang
Day/Time: Mondays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
Roughly two-thirds of the world’s population participates in the new mobile economy. Leveraging the mobile marketplace requires a conceptual understanding of mobile commerce as well as the practical skills needed to create the next generation of wireless-enabled goods and services. This course will provide both, using a combination of global case studies and hands-on experience in building mobile applications for handheld devices.

Prior coursework should include: ISGB 6910: Business Tech & Analytics

ISGB 7943
Section: 001
CRN: 46695
Course Title: Programming with Python
Professor: Daniel Groner
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
This introductory course covers the fundamentals of programming in Python. Through lectures, hands-on coding exercises, and assignments, as well as a project, students will gain a solid understanding of Python syntax, data structures, control flow, functions, and essential packages used in business applications and data analysis.

MKGB 7730
Section: 001
CRN: 53007
Course Title: Research Methods
Professor: Hooman Estelami
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - October 22, 2025
Location: Online

Graduate Business Course
Provides a fundamental understanding of research methods and their application in different business functions, offering perspectives from both the provider and user of information needed for managerial decision-making. Discusses the research process with an emphasis on the identification, collection, analysis, and dissemination of business and consumer data. Topics include problem definition, the use of secondary data, various quantitative and qualitative methods, preparation and evaluation of surveys, and basics of data analysis.

FNGB 74AV
Section: 001
CRN: 50819
Course Title: Seminar in Value Investing
Professor: Paul Johnson
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
This survey course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of the Graham and Dodd value approach to investment analysis. The course will be segmented into two parts: the basic structure of the analytical approach to value investing and its relationship to many of the elements of the MBA curriculum will be described through lectures, exercises, readings, in-class discussions, and homework assignments; the last sessions of the course will be devoted to student presentations of their investment recommendations. Parts of the course will entail empirical data analysis.
Prior coursework should include: FNGB 7421: Principles of Modern Finance

FNBU 4456
Section: E01
CRN: 53680
Course Title: Special Topic: Venture Capital
Professor: Atul Prashar
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 6:30 - 9:15 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Rose Hill Campus

Undergraduate Business Course
This course introduces the cyclical venture-capital process and examines it from the viewpoint of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and investors. Topics include raising venture capital, structuring venture capital partnerships, and key issues in evaluating stage companies, including exit alternatives, intellectual property, and patent issues.
Prior coursework should include: FNBU 3221: Financial Management

CMGB 759B
Section: 001
CRN: 54414
Course Title: Sports Media and Promotional Communication
Professor: John Fortunato
Day/Time: Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m. & Saturdays, 9 - 11 a.m.
Course Meets: August 29, 2025 - September 27, 2025
Location: Online

Graduate Business Course
Sports Media and Promotional Communication examines the mass media industry in relation to the sports field. The sports industry is unique in its economic structure and its consumers – the sports fans. The course focuses on the "off-the-field" industries of television, digital communication, advertising, sponsorship, marketing, and public relations that greatly impact all sports. The course looks at various sports as well as various forms of media, and various promotional communication strategies. Students will get an understanding of the industry today, as well as learn about the history of the sports media and the pivotal people who helped shape the field.

FNBU 4455
Section: L01
CRN: 53875
Course Title: Special Topic: Hedge Funds
Professor: Matthew Deschamps
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Undergraduate Business Course
An introductory course designed to provide students with an overview of the alternative investment business and, in particular, Hedge Fund Investment Management. The course will survey the rationale for investing in Hedge Funds from an academic and a practitioner's perspective. The course will explore the benefits of including alternative investments and hedge funds in traditional portfolios and asset allocation models from both an individual and institutional investor's perspective. Students will learn about building blocks of alternative investments such as leverage, short selling, and derivatives. They will also learn to perform detailed rate of return and risk assessment on a wide range of the most popular hedge fund strategies and styles, including long/short equity, global macro, quantitative trading, credit arbitrage, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, and distressed investing.
Prior coursework should include: FNBU 3221: Financial Management

ACBU 3449
Section: R01
CRN: 42577
Course Title: Special Topic: Process Management and Six Sigma
Professor: Dongli Zhang
Day/Time: Tuesdays and Fridays, 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 19, 2025
Location: Rose Hill Campus

Undergraduate Business Course
This course focuses on process management and how to improve organizational processes by using a body of knowledge known as Six Sigma. A process is the unity of multiple activities that transform required inputs into desired outputs. Poorly designed processes produce defective goods and services that lead to customer dissatisfaction and a higher level of internal and external failure costs. Therefore, continually improving process performance is critical to organizations' survival and success. Class lectures, discussions, and case studies in the course cover the methods and tools used for a Six Sigma project, such as project selection, process mapping and analysis, data collection, statistical data analysis, root-cause analysis, and creative thinking for both continual and breakthrough improvements.

MKBU 3461
Section: L01
CRN: 48010
Course Title: Special Topic: Sustainable Fashion
Professor: Frank Zambrelli
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6 - 8:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 19, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Undergraduate Business Course
This course delves deeply into the principles that define sustainable business, as well as the impact areas that are considered both the cause and areas of cure, within fashion’s environmental, social, and economic footprint. It is through this greater understanding of the forces in sustainability that a more comprehensive set of strategic decisions can be considered in the planning and marketing of businesses within the fashion industry’s transforming reality. Through using different readings, cases, and assignments, students will master the analysis of more deeply structured marketing strategies that filter decisions through a broader lens of people, planet, and profit.

TXGB 7020
Section: 001
CRN: 46662
Course Title: Tax Planning for Individuals
Professor: Iris Schneider
Day/Time: Mondays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
This course emphasizes the relationship of estate and gift taxes to the income tax. It explores the philosophy underlying federal policy toward the three taxes and the issue of transferring assets. It also introduces basic elements of estate planning, such as trusts, annuities, joint interests, and life insurance.

CMGB 75AG
Section: 001
CRN: 46689
Course Title: The Business of TV
Professor: Russell Fink
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
Television has been one of the cornerstones of media for more than 75 years and has become a medium through which we understand and study our culture. From the first moon landing to “Who Shot JR," from the White Ford Bronco chase involving OJ Simpson to the 2016 presidential election, television has helped to shape our industrial paradigms, social trends, and culture, and has served as a mirror to society. This class will study the sociocultural issues and effects associated with television by looking at it from various angles—including social, economic, political, and entertainment perspectives—and by reviewing the past, present, and future of television.

ISGB 7978
Section: 003
CRN: 46760
Course Title: Web Analytics
Professor: Yilu Zhou
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 p.m.
Course Meets: August 27, 2025 - December 17, 2025
Location: Lincoln Center Campus

Graduate Business Course
Web analytics is the science of accessing and analyzing vast swaths of Internet data to create business value. Typical data types include content (user queries in search engines, discussion threads in online forums, chats in social media), linkage (webpage links and social network links), and website usage logs (clickthrough data). This course also covers two core components of web analytics in modern businesses. First, students will build skills that extract and integrate data from online sources for actionable business insights. Second, they will learn conceptual and hands-on approaches to analyzing web content, linkage, and usage, including how search engines work, how online marketing web works, and how to model and analyze population-scale networks. Students will use Python throughout the course and become proficient in Google Analytics.